We are happy to announce the preview version roll out for the Improve data source experience and Common Data Service views feature this week. This feature has been evolving under the experimental flag and is ready to be on for all new canvas apps by defaulting the feature on.

Unified Interface grids are more productive with several improvements in preview new and available with the 2019 wave 2 release. The improvements span increased density, updated styling, remembering state, standard browser hyperlinks, loading indicator and improved filtering.

We are happy to announce a significant update to the Data Table control coming this week. This includes the updated field selection, Text property allowing formatting and calculated values, and better column behavior.

We are excited to announce that we have added a new experience rolling out this week for selecting data sources in canvas apps and to allow using the Common Data Services views as a filter on entities. Configuring a gallery or data table control is much easier with a prompt guiding the data source or connector to use. With this new experience is an improved data access to Common Data Service and will soon include all of the recent connection improvements. To streamline use of Common Data Service, the data source selection includes a list of suggested entities. The ability to use entity views as a filter allows more advanced queries to be used without delegation limits.

Canvas apps now support changing the environment within the Common Data Service connector. The default behavior hasn’t changed and existing Common Data Service connections will continue to use the canvas app’s current environment. When adding a new data source, we now display the environment at the top of the list of entities. The default appears … Continue reading “Enable Common Data Service connector to select an environment”

PowerApps authoring using data is getting easier with improved creation and selection of datasources, fields, and connections. The experience has been updated and search was added to help quickly find the right item. Also more of the data controls can be configured directly in the property pane. This experience is rolling out throughout this week. … Continue reading “Improved datasource and field selection in canvas apps”

With the latest release, we have added a new experimental feature for enhanced Group control in canvas apps. This control changes grouping from being a Studio only grouping concept to a real grouping control in the player. It enables us to enhance the grouping capabilities which weren’t possible in Studio only.

We are happy to announce the preview of the Model-Driven Apps within PowerApps. PowerApps is the platform on which Dynamics 365 apps are natively built. Model-driven apps provides a no-code or low-code component approach to app development.